Poets/Melvin Dixon

Melvin Dixon

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This poem is for the epidemic dead and the living. Remember them? …

Melvin Dixon

Vermont leaves under glass, …

Melvin Dixon

Reading clouds beyond the road …

Melvin Dixon

“I am not the prodigal son,” I said …

Melvin Dixon

Rippling hospital sheets …

Melvin Dixon

Once teaching English in Ivory Coast …

Melvin Dixon

Work out. Ten laps. …

Melvin Dixon

Work out. Ten laps. …

Melvin Dixon

At the Louvre you find Mona Lisa …

Melvin Dixon

The children in the life: …

Melvin Dixon

The first night you were gone …

Melvin Dixon

First goes floordust, then newspapers …

Melvin Dixon

Yours free without the asking …

Melvin Dixon

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